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    Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    And how about three free games with an HD 7900-series card?
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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    Interesting, thanks Hexus.

    I know it's pretty obvious in each graph which is 1080p or 1600p, but the colours in the key of each graph are pretty meaningless!

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    I wish I had bought a 7970 now. V. well done AMD!
    Last edited by chuckskull; 23-10-2012 at 07:57 PM. Reason: Language

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    Like the man said. This changes the game completely for me.
    WTH were the previous drivers all about ?

    Also "Still, the GPU Boosting GeForce GTX 680 just about manages to keep the Radeon at bay."
    Errrm whut ?
    The 680 shows scores of P9629 and E3298
    The 7970 shows scores of P9715 and E3259
    This would show the cards at parity (at the very least) surely ?
    Last edited by Phage; 22-10-2012 at 08:53 AM.
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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    Wow those BF3 numbers are staggering - Is it just because im not 100% in touch or have the prices gone up?

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    Which prices ? My card seems pretty stable at £370.00
    http://www.dabs.com/products/gigabyt...m_content=Q200
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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    Ummm wow, it's amazing how much changes in 10 months.

    These cards are totally different both in terms of performance and value compared to when they were launched.

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    I'm going to have to play some BF3 tonight

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    Quote Originally Posted by Jonatron View Post
    I'm going to have to play some BF3 tonight
    Oh yes indeedy.
    I might run some before and after benches to see if my results are similar.
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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    I wonder if AMD dropping the monthly driver updates has meant that the engineers could actually spend some time optimising the software rather than chasing their tails during a release cycle?

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    sweet, guess I made the right choice going for the HD7970! thanks for the comparison Hexus

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    More info:
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/6393/a...211-new-bundle

    Worse at Starcraft II? Boooooo!

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    Quote Originally Posted by Willzzz View Post
    Worse at Starcraft II? Boooooo!
    It's not worse due to the driver, as noted in the link there's a bug/oddity in the latest Starcraft II patch that reduced performance. Not sure why they didn't test the other driver versions on that patch version as well though.

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    Actually they've patched that since and I was being tongue in cheek anyway.

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    well, seems like my plan to save up for a new card is paying off, any idea when this promotion will end?

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    Re: Reviews - AMD Catalyst 12.11 benchmarked; surprising performance gains

    Actually I know these are labelled as November, but do we know when they'll be available ?
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